Curious to know how other people deal with life's ups and downs and prompted by listening to the radio on the way home the other night in which people were confessing to actually not speaking to their OHs for days if they had upset them...!

I don't think I'm a sulker.......I slam a door (for England!:-D), curse a little (ok maybe more than a little sometimes! :-D) then get on with LIFE!

Do you get mad or do you get even? :-D :-D

Life's too short to get mad or get even - I just get on with it!

I strop, then forgive - just as soon as I get my own way :)

I've never sulked but can be stroppy.  I try not to get angry and upset with the people around me because they are precious. Woe betide  others that cross me though because my attitude these days is that I just cut them off.  I cannot waste any time, energy or emotions on people who want to give me grief in any form.

My OH could sulk for England in the early days but I used to pretend I hadn't noticed and would carry on normally, chatting and singing (my little in-joke with myself :D)

Umm, I think I might be a sulker!  My OH and I don't tend to have shouting matches but more little digs and ignoring each other for a while although not for days on end!!!   I dont hold a grudge though as lifes too short :D :D :D

Making up is the fun part :D :D

:rolleyes: my OH could sulk for England! after he's slammed a few doors, used every swear word he can muster and gone to bed - whatever time of the day/night - in a mood. We don't argue though as he never stays in the room long enough for me to answer back. Sulks for weeks on end Me? I just ignore him, let him get on with it. At least its quiet whilst he sulks in bed, and I can watch what I want on tv, don't have to cook him anything cos he wouldn't want it anyway. When he is in a good mood however, he is the life and soul, always busy doing something, laughing and joking. But it just seems he goes from one extreme to the other and nothing in between :rolleyes:
Mmm I quite fancy a few days peace and quiet come to think of it :P

goes off trying to find something to light the fuse :P :P

Umm, don't sulk, will say there and then what I think, will argue, could actually fall out and then 5 minutes later we'll be laughing and joking again :d

Lifes to short to sulk, you never know what's around the corner!

Thats what I keep telling him. Years ago I used to try all sorts to get him out of it, but I find if I just leave him alone, he gets bored ignoring people who are now ignoring him and it gets lonely when you lock yourself away and everyone else around you is just behaving like nothings wrong ;)  Boredom gets him in the end :P

I've never been a sulker - much too depressing :)  In fact I've discovered recently that it pays not to have too high expectations of people/life etc. When you don't expect too much you don't get disappointed as often so you don't feel the need to sulk or throw a tantrum.  That's the theory anyway !

I prefer to call it brooding :D  What is she thinking sort of thing, much more mysterious ;) :p

I haven't the patience for sulking :rolleyes: shout scream get it all said then move on ........now OH on the otherhand has made an Olympic Event of it, no prizes for guessing who won the Gold Medal

>I prefer to call it brooding

or plotting? As in plotting retribution :D

I'm not a sulker, but have to admit to having smashed a few glass doors in temper. 

I get stroppy but no, I rarely sulk :) Men sulk though, and they go off in a strop and say they will never come back ...but then you spot them lurking :p

I'm a door-slammer and thrower-of-anything close to hand. You can still see the mark in the hall where I threw a red onion (like I said, closest thing to hand will do) at the wall with such force that it exploded and splattered everywhere. Oops :P I try not to slam doors now as the sandblasted glass panes in my current doors are expensive to replace and I'd be the one footing the bill :rolleyes:

Having said that, it takes a lot to make me lose my temper and it doesn't go often but when it does...hide the red onions!! :D

Yep - it's a man thing :rolleyes:   Me?  I simmer, perhaps smoulder, at a push seethe for a bit then best if the offender stays outwith sniper range :D :D :D 

I brood a bit - but it doesn't last long :) I came from a family who shouted at each other - soon over afterwards :) However, when I got married my OH didn't do shouting - he didn't even do discussion :( The first time, I really got upset at his lack of communication and tipped a glass of water over him. Gradually, over 25 years, he has learnt to communicate a bit :D :D Gets better and better - just needs a little patience :D :D :D

Daisy

My OH is so laid back its unreal, I have honestly never met anyone like him he doesnt do arguing, he says its a waste of time :).  I have never heard him raise his voice, he is very placid natured like his dad.  But god forbid anyone should hurt his family, I know for sure I would run a mile if he lost his temper :D.  Living with someone like this you just learn to not argue and agree to disagree.

I sulk for a bit then I get naffed off as don't get a reaction :rolleyes::rolleyes: So just let rip have a good shout and rant then we make up :D

We hardly ever have harsh words unless they are the days marked in OH's diary as RED days (PM days ) He winds me up something cronic on purpose as it normally gives me a reality check :D

Nah, I tell my OH exactly what I think, whether he wants to hear it or not :-) so does he !! That way we both know where we stand LOL!

I'm pretty laid back, but when I loose it I scream, shout and once I pulled the stair gate off the door frame and threw it at my husband. But......since giving up smoking everyone around me gets me mad and I really sulk, but hopefully this wont last for long.

I dont sulk either but I do remember every single thing my hubby has ever done to annoy me and follow him around the house reminding him ...LOL it drives him mad but once its all out I forget it  he then disappears into his computer room and sulks for a good few hours .  :)

My OH flys off the handle, big style, at anything so i try to keep the peace instead of winding him up. My mum and dad can't beleive the change in me as i used to be an argumenative so and so!! :D

If he is in a strop i will sometimes ask what is the matter and he will say "nothing" (like they do :D) and so i just say "ok" and carrry on as normal. It only takes an hour or so for me to find out what the problem is. Normally very loudly and for a loooong time! :D :D  (sometimes this doesn't work and when i ask i get told )

He also remembers everything i ever got wrong and winds me up!!

I say that i don't remind him of things as there are so many. As i have only a few faults it's easier for him to remeber :D :D

Of course he doesn't agree:rolleyes::D